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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 7 – October 7, 2009 825 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 41 · Issue 280 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

How to run a small consultancy / freelancing business

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    How not to test that mysqld is alive

    7 of 30 days · 10 articles

  2. Technology

    Looking into the future with Cassandra

    7 of 30 days · 9 articles

  3. Technology

    Create a font from your own handwriting

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 44 stories

  1. How to run a small consultancy / freelancing business

  2. Working for startups sucks, you'll be happier working for The Man

  3. Mark Zuckerberg: The evolution of a remarkable CEO

  4. Fundable comes to an ugly end

Show 10 more
  1. Flash Professional CS5 will build native iPhone and iPod Touch applications

  2. @2gov - Visas for startup founders movement

  3. Email Newsletters Are Serious Business

  4. The trouble with non-profits

  5. When It Comes To Founding Successful Startups, Old Guys Rule

  6. The Best Deal In Startup Land

  7. What I Learned From My Failed Startup

  8. TC50 Backstage: Why PG Was Mean and Which YC Companies Will IPO

  9. Child-safety software sells kids' IM conversations to market-research companies

  10. Startup Bootcamp: October 12th at MIT with many YC speakers

Sports 28 stories

  1. How Tim Schafer Broke Into the Game Industry: A Legendary Cover Letter

  2. Judge Orders Google To Deactivate User's Gmail Account and Disclose Identity

Show 6 more
  1. Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time

  2. The end of AI winter?

  3. ACM 20 Most Influential Papers on Programming Languages [tarball]

  4. 21-year-old computer geek makes £1m with online game (Torn)

  5. Why aeroplane wings aren't dimpled like golf balls

  6. John Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace "wins" Lunar Lander Challenge [video]

Technology 626 stories

  1. The Duct Tape Programmer

  2. Building an Echo Server Using Tornado

  3. Using SVN makes your site extremely vulnerable

Show 9 more
  1. Grand Central Dispatch Now Open to All

  2. Courier - Microsoft's Secret Tablet?

  3. How not to test that mysqld is alive

  4. Looking into the future with Cassandra

  5. Norman Borlaug on Organic Farming

  6. A terrible tragedy: Dan Haubert of Ticketstumbler (fallentimes) has passed away

  7. Yeah Ok, So Facebook Punk’d Us

  8. When a co-founder dies

  9. This Is a Photoshop and It Blew My Mind - Photosketch

Entertainment 10 stories

  1. Aaron Swartz shows his FBI file

  2. Grand Prize Awarded To BellKor Pragmatic Chaos

Show 6 more
  1. Netflix Prize Movie Similarity Visualization

  2. Netflix's tail massage

  3. Tell HN: Paul Graham on TC50 panel, streaming live

  4. Justin.tv founders named as top 30 under 30 by Inc.

  5. 7 ways I’ve almost killed FreshBooks

  6. Music Sales

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